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Since Virginia Tech, States Have Dramatically Increased Reports to
National Gun Background Check System

PARK CITY, Utah, Nov. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a speech before
the National Association of Attorneys General, Attorney General Michael B.
Mukasey today announced that since the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech,
states have doubled the information on prohibiting mental health history
available to the FBI's gun background check system.

"Instant background checks are essential to keeping guns out of the
wrong hands, while still protecting the privacy of our citizens," Mukasey
said. "But as we learned in the tragedy at Virginia Tech, the checks must
be accurate and complete to be effective. We're making progress, and I hope
that even more states will submit this information so that the National
Instant Background Check System can be maximally effective."

Following the shootings at Virginia Tech, the President directed the
Attorney General and Secretaries of Education and Health and Human Services
to travel across the country to find out what could be learned from this
tragedy. The cabinet secretaries presented what they learned in a
comprehensive report last July, with one recommendation strongly
encouraging state and federal agencies to share prohibiting mental health
information with the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check
System (NICS).

Today the Attorney General announced that from July to November 2007,
the number of state submissions to the NICS Mental Defective File more than
doubled -- growing from 174,863 to 393,957 records.

The number of states submitting mental health information to NICS
increased from 23 to 32 since the Virginia Tech shootings. The great
majority of the new records came from the State of California. For the past
several years, the California Department of Justice (DOJ) has worked
diligently with the FBI's NICS Section to allow for submission of
California mental health information, and, in October 2007, the California
DOJ submitted over 200,000 entries into the Mental Defective File. Also,
the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation increased its
mental health submissions to the NICS Index. Ohio's submissions increased
from three in March 2007, to 7,845 Mental Defective File submissions in
November 2007.

The submission of state information to the NICS about prohibited
persons is vital in preventing disqualified individuals from purchasing
firearms. Making state information about a warrant or other disqualifying
information -- such as prohibiting mental health records -- available for a
national-level background check by the NICS helps to ensure that a person
with a prohibiting record in one state will be prevented from buying a gun
from a federally licensed dealer in another state. The FBI's NICS Section
actively solicits mental health record information that immediately
identifies individuals who are prohibited by law from possessing or
receiving firearms or explosives. The NICS Section also coordinates with
states seeking to draft and enact legislation that will allow them to
submit state mental health information to the NICS.

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